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# tract

«tract» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large area of land or water** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a tract, tracts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tract is a large area of land or water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tract/#m1)

2) In the body, a tract is a long system of connected parts, like the digestive tract or the respiratory tract. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tract/#m2)

3) A tract is also a short booklet or leaflet that tries to persuade people, often about religion or politics. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tract/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science it comes up in the body: the digestive tract (food pipe, stomach, intestines) and the respiratory tract (nose, windpipe, lungs). In geography it describes big pieces of land. In history and church life a tract was a booklet handed out to spread an idea. Phrases: a vast tract of, digestive tract, respiratory tract, a religious tract.

### examples

- Huge tracts of rainforest have been cut down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tract/#x1)
- Food passes through the digestive tract. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tract/#x2)
- A cold is an infection of the upper respiratory tract. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tract/#x3)
- The settlers bought a tract of land near the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tract/#x4)
- A man at the station was handing out religious tracts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tract/#x5)
- Vast tracts of Australia are desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tract/#x6)
- So one day, when they happened to be passing through a pleasant and solitary tract of country, he sat himself down on a heap of moss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tract/#x7)

### note

Countable. Trap: tract is not track (a path or rail) and not traction. Related words: attract, extract, subtract all share the Latin root for "pull".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tract» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tract/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.